HANOI - Vietnam rebuked Taiwan on Thursday for taking journalists to a disputed South China Sea island, saying the trip was "illegal and worthless" and against the international community's wishes.
The foreign ministry's comment on Wednesday's trip, the first by international media to the Spratly archipelago's Itu Aba island, was an unusually fast response by Vietnam, which often takes days to raise objections about territorial disputes.
Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei have competing claims to the Spratly islands.
via Asia
